Back in Paris and a New Apartment!
Bonsoir, Today was the price we pay for having so much fun. We have changed beds, done four loads of laundry, scrubbed bathrooms, vacuumed, dusted, and packed! We are exhausted as we were preparing our rue St. Paul apartment for company arriving later this week. Actually, Bernie’s son is coming for the big birthday, and […]
Cruising Ends in Amsterdam
Bonsoir, The final stop on our Rhine River cruise was Amsterdam. As we glided down the canal off the Rhine on Sunday morning, we loved the manicured banks, peaceful green fields, flocks of sheep and multiple ponds where they have built the natural dykes associated with the entire area. The darn weather was overcast and […]
Cologne, Germany
Bonjour, This morning I am awake early writing about our day yesterday in Cologne, Germany. We experienced the time change “fall back” last night so an extra hour of sleep for those who can adjust in one night. That’s never the case with me. The weather is still quite cool but we have managed to […]
Along the Breathtaking Rhine River Gorge
Bonjour mes amis, The peak of our Rhine River cruise was today’s anticipation of the famous Rhine River Gorge. (It’s the television commercial we all see from Viking Cruise Lines) To experience this in ideal fashion, the weather should be warm, clear, blue skies and no wind. We waked up to freezing cold temps […]
Caregiving Can Be an Act of Waiting
It has been my unexpected pleasure for the past ten years to date a Parisian, a wonderful man named Bernie, or “Bernard” in French. He is seven years my senior and will be turning 75 years old in just a few weeks. He’s really more American than anything, but his native land and language (as […]
Cruising to Strasbourg and Heildelberg, Germany
Bonjour! We have been busy over the past couple of days. It’s just exceedingly hard work to have this much fun, and we’re exhausted! Food, food and more food and excursions, entertainment, laughter, strolling…all are just consuming us! Many thanks to Doris Todd at Custom Travel for putting together our Burritt Cruisers group again this […]
Rhine River Cruise in Alsace
Bonsoir, Welcome to the MS AmaDolce, a 130 passenger river boat which will be our home away from Paris for the next week as we cruise along the Rhine river in the Alsace region of France/Germany. The weather today was in the mid 50’s, cloudy, very windy and looking like it would rain any minute. […]
Le Weekend in Alsace, France
Bonsoir, We have spent a delightful weekend in the Alsace region of France in a lovely village called Soultz. We took the train from Paris to a town very near Soultz and were greeted by Pierre and Laurie Verdier with smiling faces and hugs yesterday afternoon about 6pm. We are very near the German border […]